So I guess the "This Road Is Being Paid by Federal Funds" sign I drove by on the way to work today was all part of a vast conspiracy.
For years, there's been a pie chart near the end of every for 1040 instruction booklet showing how incoming and outgoing funds are allocated. Interest on the national debt is 8%.
Your father much have been utterly incompetent. WinCE had a vast cornucopia of at least 5 or 10 apps available for it by the time it EOLed.
Really, the iPad is just a jumbo-sized iPod Touch. Which is just what I wish for when I tire of squinting at my iPod Touch's screen, or viewing videos in super-lo-def.
But I have to admin it's the most fun I've had with any gizmo for $149 (remanufactured.)
Now, even if quadrupling the dimensions 16-tuples the size of the screen, the $500 price tag is still pricey. I'll get one either after Christmas when they will drop the price $100, or when I tire of my family badgering me about not getting them one.
That's actually the context (religious studies) in which credible courses on UFO-ology and other "unexplained" phenomena occur.
It's not a investigation of whether UFOs are real, but why the people who "see" them belive they are real. You can substitute any religious figure, conspiracy theories, or the Flying Spaghetti monster for UFOs - regardless of whether "it's true", people believe it, and "that settles it" for a lot of people even if contradictory evidence exists.
A SURE sign is when you get calls from recruiters about jobs that are 500-plus miles away:
1) The job is so shitty that we have asked every recruiter on the planet to try to fill it.
2) Or else there are 50 openings on a project that is so utterly f-ed up that no competent person would want to work on it, and it will take 50 incompetents to just keep it from imploding under its own mass.
3) Or recruiter is geographically clueless. My resume clearly states that I will not accept any jobs outside of bicycle commuting distance, yet recruiters have still called me and asked me if Los Angeles or West Virginia were within daily commuting distance of the SF Bay Area. (Glad the job wasn't in EAST Virginia!)
Flight simulators are more realistic for even everyday flying because a lot of the time, especially when you are on instruments, what you feel with your body and see out the window has nothing to do with actually controlling the plane. Commericial pilots spend a lot of time with their heads down, the view out the window is irrelevant.
Allow access, then any employee who posts "my company sucks" to their own company's facebook or twitter page automatically gets fired, not for squaundering $0.000005 of the company's valuable resources, but for being a dumbass.
If you insist on blocking, I should be able to contract out my finely-tuned dumbass-detection skills to you for big bucks. Profit! And zero false positives, for the most part.
That's basically one more rule than what is there now for most employees. I can't speak for all, but my wife works for a federal agency, and she has no control over what happens to her computer. The whole building came in a few months ago, for example, to find they had been upgraded from XP to Windows 7 without any notice. Hilarity ensured! They have been switched back and forth between Exchange and Lotus Notes several times. And I can't send her any email attachments, they are usually and somewhat capriciously blocked.
In addition, control is from the top down. All email from the hinterland is routed via Washington, where presumably is it examined for evil and then archived forever.
She was issued a brand new out of the box IBM-branded Palm III in 2005. She finally got a Blackberry two or three years ago.
And so on, at the whim of whatever contractor they have selected to do IT (most of the federal-employed IT people have been let go and rehired as contractors.)
So how many people are going to pay $200K to ride in this thing, and then ask for their money back because they spent the flight puking their guts out?
I mean, for the same cash, I could rent a MiG-29 for a couple days and have a hell of a time.
It will cost you an entire Mint of Denver full of money to get the 322Tbit version, and you would have to plug in approximately 3 Hoover Dams of fiber optic connections, each operating at the speed of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, just to get the full effect. Otherwise, it's just about 4.5 US Post Offices worth of throughput/
I mean, I lost my cheap-ass work cell phone last week, and it's only a PITA because I have to look up everyone's number again until they are all in my contacts.
Also (besides the approx 50% effective discount from tax credits, etc) the Bay Area grid is tapped out, full, at capacity. There are colos that are only using 50% of their floor area because they cannot get enough electricity to power any more cabinets.
When fuel cell technology takes off in Texas or eastern Oregon or Nevada, then I'll be convinced.
It's not about paying for itself, it's about eating your own dog food. Bloom Energy, Google, Yahoo, Segway, all financed from the same cabal of VCs, and the way you score revenue in that business is to trade each other your stuff and then count the trades as revenue in both directions. Kind of like two real estate guys selling each other the same two condos, until the price is bid up to a level worthy for sale to some suck^H^H^H^H other investor. Hey, it worked in 1999, why not now?
I have nothing against Comcast. We had low (analog cable) signal levels a few years ago and the bunglers they sent out coudn't figure out what the problem was, so they just took all the traps out up and down the street and my whole block got free extended basic for free for 6 or 7 years. This only ended a couple months ago when they finally upgraded the neighborhood to digital.
My employer's commercial service is a different story. It WAS rock solid stable for three years, until somebody firebombed the local head end last year. Then, it took them a month to get BGP stable. And Comcast still doesn't honor our AS prepending, so we have to go through various kludges to split our incoming routes between Comcast and our other providers.
I isn't really possible to "steer" the shuttle, except to a very limited extent by the OMS, and you mostly use those for reentry. The external tank is emptied out by the launch and then jettisoned. This is why there are launch windows when the shuttle is launched to meet up with the ISS, or the Hubble, etc. You don't just go blasting away like an Asteroids video game. You can probably shift your orbit 10 or 20 degrees to the left or right over the course of day or two, but that's about it.
Second, preparing the shuttle for launch is difficult, time consuming, and expensive, as opposed to just tying in a few numbers and pushing the button to launch a conventional ICBM. So you would only arm the Shuttle if nuclear war were imminent, and then it could easily be blasted while it was being set up.
Third, placement of weapons of mass destruction in space is prohibited by treaty. It would be pretty easy to detect violations, without even having any spies on the ground.
I thought the same thing as parent, actually, and looked up the domain myself when I saw it on my netstat output.
Anyway, you don't want to DoS.com Spread the load around.
Or you could just give Google their own TLD.
Better yet, Google could register google.ht. The process of registering a host name for every molecule in the universe would bail that country out in no time at all.
Maybe the system works? When was the last time anyone heard of an attack on an El Al airplane?
And that the latest perp succeeded only in catching his pants on fire, points to some success. If there were no three-ounce rule, or no even haphazard searches, he wouldn't have bothered with the explosive underwear and instead just packed some C4 in his backpack.
Agreed. Good coders in India get paid well just like good coders get paid well anywhere else in the world. Just like in the US, some Indian contract agencies try to low-ball their salaries so they can get lots of low-end (crappy) customers, and some agencies do try to hire talented people, and charge accordingly.
"You get what you pay for" translates into all languages.
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So I guess the "This Road Is Being Paid by Federal Funds" sign I drove by on the way to work today was all part of a vast conspiracy.
For years, there's been a pie chart near the end of every for 1040 instruction booklet showing how incoming and outgoing funds are allocated. Interest on the national debt is 8%.
This year it's on page 100: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040.pdf
Your father much have been utterly incompetent. WinCE had a vast cornucopia of at least 5 or 10 apps available for it by the time it EOLed.
Really, the iPad is just a jumbo-sized iPod Touch. Which is just what I wish for when I tire of squinting at my iPod Touch's screen, or viewing videos in super-lo-def.
But I have to admin it's the most fun I've had with any gizmo for $149 (remanufactured.)
Now, even if quadrupling the dimensions 16-tuples the size of the screen, the $500 price tag is still pricey. I'll get one either after Christmas when they will drop the price $100, or when I tire of my family badgering me about not getting them one.
That's actually the context (religious studies) in which credible courses on UFO-ology and other "unexplained" phenomena occur.
It's not a investigation of whether UFOs are real, but why the people who "see" them belive they are real. You can substitute any religious figure, conspiracy theories, or the Flying Spaghetti monster for UFOs - regardless of whether "it's true", people believe it, and "that settles it" for a lot of people even if contradictory evidence exists.
Could I pay $5 less to use the 2D glasses?
If your recruiter asks for a Word doc and you are actually interested, just rename a *.txt file to *.doc.
I actually just have a hard link on my web site, my resume.txt is the same file as my resume.doc.
A SURE sign is when you get calls from recruiters about jobs that are 500-plus miles away:
1) The job is so shitty that we have asked every recruiter on the planet to try to fill it.
2) Or else there are 50 openings on a project that is so utterly f-ed up that no competent person would want to work on it, and it will take 50 incompetents to just keep it from imploding under its own mass.
3) Or recruiter is geographically clueless. My resume clearly states that I will not accept any jobs outside of bicycle commuting distance, yet recruiters have still called me and asked me if Los Angeles or West Virginia were within daily commuting distance of the SF Bay Area. (Glad the job wasn't in EAST Virginia!)
Presidio is blazing hot more often than not, it often reports the highest temperature in the US.
Flight simulators are more realistic for even everyday flying because a lot of the time, especially when you are on instruments, what you feel with your body and see out the window has nothing to do with actually controlling the plane. Commericial pilots spend a lot of time with their heads down, the view out the window is irrelevant.
Allow access, then any employee who posts "my company sucks" to their own company's facebook or twitter page automatically gets fired, not for squaundering $0.000005 of the company's valuable resources, but for being a dumbass.
If you insist on blocking, I should be able to contract out my finely-tuned dumbass-detection skills to you for big bucks. Profit! And zero false positives, for the most part.
That's basically one more rule than what is there now for most employees. I can't speak for all, but my wife works for a federal agency, and she has no control over what happens to her computer. The whole building came in a few months ago, for example, to find they had been upgraded from XP to Windows 7 without any notice. Hilarity ensured! They have been switched back and forth between Exchange and Lotus Notes several times. And I can't send her any email attachments, they are usually and somewhat capriciously blocked.
In addition, control is from the top down. All email from the hinterland is routed via Washington, where presumably is it examined for evil and then archived forever.
She was issued a brand new out of the box IBM-branded Palm III in 2005. She finally got a Blackberry two or three years ago.
And so on, at the whim of whatever contractor they have selected to do IT (most of the federal-employed IT people have been let go and rehired as contractors.)
Finally, they found a way to make spacecraft leak oil: Lucas Aerospace!
So how many people are going to pay $200K to ride in this thing, and then ask for their money back because they spent the flight puking their guts out?
I mean, for the same cash, I could rent a MiG-29 for a couple days and have a hell of a time.
http://www.flyfighterjet.com/
... that deliver 20,000 lb of paper to my workplace every few weeks or so. And the 1 printer for every 5 workers ratio is not getting any better.
Think of the advantages: With 4D movies, if the movie sucks, you'll be able to get the three hours of your life back that you just wasted.
It will cost you an entire Mint of Denver full of money to get the 322Tbit version, and you would have to plug in approximately 3 Hoover Dams of fiber optic connections, each operating at the speed of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, just to get the full effect. Otherwise, it's just about 4.5 US Post Offices worth of throughput/
Of course, some people might be able to use that.
And his life was gone for **two months**.
Sad.
I mean, I lost my cheap-ass work cell phone last week, and it's only a PITA because I have to look up everyone's number again until they are all in my contacts.
We are BOFH. You want Mutual Assured Destruction? We make the USAF look like wusses.
Also (besides the approx 50% effective discount from tax credits, etc) the Bay Area grid is tapped out, full, at capacity. There are colos that are only using 50% of their floor area because they cannot get enough electricity to power any more cabinets.
When fuel cell technology takes off in Texas or eastern Oregon or Nevada, then I'll be convinced.
It's not about paying for itself, it's about eating your own dog food. Bloom Energy, Google, Yahoo, Segway, all financed from the same cabal of VCs, and the way you score revenue in that business is to trade each other your stuff and then count the trades as revenue in both directions. Kind of like two real estate guys selling each other the same two condos, until the price is bid up to a level worthy for sale to some suck^H^H^H^H other investor. Hey, it worked in 1999, why not now?
I have nothing against Comcast. We had low (analog cable) signal levels a few years ago and the bunglers they sent out coudn't figure out what the problem was, so they just took all the traps out up and down the street and my whole block got free extended basic for free for 6 or 7 years. This only ended a couple months ago when they finally upgraded the neighborhood to digital.
My employer's commercial service is a different story. It WAS rock solid stable for three years, until somebody firebombed the local head end last year. Then, it took them a month to get BGP stable. And Comcast still doesn't honor our AS prepending, so we have to go through various kludges to split our incoming routes between Comcast and our other providers.
I isn't really possible to "steer" the shuttle, except to a very limited extent by the OMS, and you mostly use those for reentry. The external tank is emptied out by the launch and then jettisoned. This is why there are launch windows when the shuttle is launched to meet up with the ISS, or the Hubble, etc. You don't just go blasting away like an Asteroids video game. You can probably shift your orbit 10 or 20 degrees to the left or right over the course of day or two, but that's about it.
Second, preparing the shuttle for launch is difficult, time consuming, and expensive, as opposed to just tying in a few numbers and pushing the button to launch a conventional ICBM. So you would only arm the Shuttle if nuclear war were imminent, and then it could easily be blasted while it was being set up.
Third, placement of weapons of mass destruction in space is prohibited by treaty. It would be pretty easy to detect violations, without even having any spies on the ground.
I thought the same thing as parent, actually, and looked up the domain myself when I saw it on my netstat output.
Anyway, you don't want to DoS .com Spread the load around.
Or you could just give Google their own TLD.
Better yet, Google could register google.ht. The process of registering a host name for every molecule in the universe would bail that country out in no time at all.
There is a fairly large amount of counterfeit Cisco gear floating around
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/102306counterfeit.html
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/13213
http://www.andovercg.com/services/cisco-counterfeit-wic-1dsu-t1.shtml
And we all know where this stuff is made.
OTOH we just bought a huge pile of new Juniper stuff at work, every single piece "Made in China".
Maybe the system works? When was the last time anyone heard of an attack on an El Al airplane?
And that the latest perp succeeded only in catching his pants on fire, points to some success. If there were no three-ounce rule, or no even haphazard searches, he wouldn't have bothered with the explosive underwear and instead just packed some C4 in his backpack.
Agreed. Good coders in India get paid well just like good coders get paid well anywhere else in the world. Just like in the US, some Indian contract agencies try to low-ball their salaries so they can get lots of low-end (crappy) customers, and some agencies do try to hire talented people, and charge accordingly.
"You get what you pay for" translates into all languages.